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by rumanator 2294 days ago
> No, timezone information can be critical and assuming you can always strip it is just wrong.

Expressing time based on the standard reference timezones (i.e., UTC) is not stripping the time zone away.

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It is. Timezones change all the time in relation to UTC. If you set a date in the future and think converting it to UTC doesn't lose information, you will be surprised when you get bitten by it.

Example: The EU will most likely get rid of DST around 2022. Any time you set beforehand in CEST or CET will be an hour off, depending on which the EU will get rid of.aybe the EU doesn't get rid of DST and keeps it, you don't know. So unless you have a time machine, you cannot convert the time to UTC.